Meaning of kamagraph | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The special press used to create reproductions by kamagraphy.
2. A reproduction produced by this process.

Examples

“Max Emst, the well-known dada and surrealist painter; Edouard Pignon, a French abstractionist; and the late René Magritte, the extraordinary Belgian surrealist who died this year, have⟳ all executed special work⟳ for the kamagraph.”

“I learned from this book, for instance, that kamagraph is a name⟳ for a 'special printing press⟳ that faithfully duplicates up to 250 copies of a painting, including raised brush strokes, destroying the original in the process⟳.”

“A kamagraph is this old French press⟳ from the 1880s that could duplicate original art, but 99 percent of the time it would destroy⟳ the original.”

“Each kamagraph looks as though the artist had painted it by hand. The French call⟳ this type⟳ of work⟳ a “multi-original,” because the machine can work⟳ only with a painting painted for it on a specially treated canvas plaque.”

“The procedure that Takis devised for moving the stiff pages of the book and the nails already fits the initial description of a multiple given by Franc5ois Barre/, in 1967, who applied it to small and medium runs (kamagraphs, multiples), mass produced work⟳ (design⟳, graphics) and polycyclic structures (Eugenio Carmi): “The multiple is therefore essentially composite: it is a construction, it is a fixed or mobile system, sometimes the gernator of multiple combinations included in its design⟳, which often make⟳ it a work⟳ of art."”

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